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Challenges of Present Educational System in India
Posted Date: 19 Sep 2009 Posted By: Rohit Mian Member Level: Diamond Points: 1
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Education is the parameter that separates a man from the beast. Education uplifts the standards, promotes co-operation and maintains harmony in the society. The cognizance it instills makes every individual an intellectual citizen of the nation. Country expects its growth and development on the rock stone called ‘Education’. It is possible only if the education system is fair and good enough and that too targeted in a right direction. Though education system in India is one of the finest in the world but yet there are certain impediments that still hinders with its move towards perfection. Filtering our education system of these challenges will definitely refine it. Major challenges faced by the present education system of India are discussed as follows:
1.Inefficiency to Extract Students Interest:
A major area where the present Indian education system is lacking is that education here has taken the form of rat race. Each and every student has its own interest in one or the other field. Teachers fail to extract the student’s interests where they can excel, so that they can be provided better opportunities and guidance in the area of their interest. Instead they are forced to mug up the mandatory subjects and their perspective is made just limited to professions like doctors, engineers, lawyers etcetera. Indian education is thus expanding in quantity not quality. The character of Indian education system has restrained and restricted Indian young right from the school age and continues that way with college and university stage. This harms the potential of human mind for constructing and creating new knowledge. In nutshell, we may say that the actual talent of the students remains concealed and is never let to ooze out.
2.Engineering, Medical & Other Colleges--- All Money Earning Shops:
Higher education in the current scenario in India is in an extreme chaos. Entry of private entrepreneur into the education system has led to the deterioration of the quality of higher education. Mushrooming engineering and management colleges, degree and postgraduate colleges, dental and other colleges and last but not the least the deemed universities, with some notable exceptions, have largely become more business entities dispensing very poor quality education. These modern shops of higher education are running their courses on temporary and under qualified staff without proper laboratories and libraries. The sole concern of these self-financing institutions is profit maximization. Fee structure of majority of professional institutions is so cumbersome that the ward of an ordinary person has no place in these institutions.
3.Multi-regulatory System:
Currently the regulatory framework of higher education in India is under multiple statutory bodies like, University Grant Commission (UGC), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Medical Council of India (MCI), and National Council on Teacher Education (NCTE) etcetera. The presence of such a multi-regulatory system has created many hurdles in the growth of our education system. Various colleges get approved and affiliated easily even if they do not meet the required standards completely. Bulk of deemed universities exist in India which do not deserve this status at all. This is all because of lack of coordination and corruption in these multi-regulatory bodies. Often two regulatory bodies can be found on loggerheads and fighting legal cases against each other. Various stages of regulations, such as approval, recognition, affiliation and accreditation have created avenues for bureaucratic intervention, red tapism and last but not least the corruption.
4.Grading System Initiated by CBSE----Not a Good Practice:
Recently Central Board of Secondary education (CBSE) initiated a move towards the grading system for matriculation classes and exempting the students from giving the goose bumps causing board exams. Though it may have relieved lakhs of students from the burden of boards but I do not consider it as an intelligent step towards the education development. In this scheme, E grade will be given to the student who has scored below 33% marks. Such a case in case of board exams used to fail a student (33% in two subjects). But in grading system, the fellow will be allowed to sit in XIth standard and given a chance to improve. Such a practice will make the students to take the matriculation exams more lightly. The dedication and sincerity that the students used to have earlier will vanish with the implementation of this grading system. The hidden motive behind this scheme of CBSE is not to relieve the students but to transform all schools into CBSE schools. Students studying in various other boards like ICSE, state board etcetera will definitely find grading system better and less burdened and will tempt them to drift to CBSE schools. As such the ICSE and other schools will become deficit in students and they will ultimately transform to CBSE schools.
In order to meet and overcome most of the challenges in the present education system in India, The Yash Pal Committee has submitted its report on ‘Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher education in India’ to HRD minister Kapil Sibal on June 24, 2009. This report has recommended the establishment of single regulatory body, National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) discarding all other multi-regulatory bodies. Hope, implementation of this report proves out to be a great help to eradicate these crux from the present education system in India.
Essay Competition Entry.
"By silence I conceal my imperfections and come to know others."
Regards, Rohit Mian. Editor ISC. Webmaster Himachalspider. Earn Online
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| Author: Vandana 20 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating:  Points: 4 | Very good entry,Rohit! I would like to encourage you to submit articles to Ezine as your English is good. After Ezine approves it, submit the link here & you will get good cash credits.
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[In your Point No.4 on grading system you have mentioned 'goose bombing'. The correct word is 'goose bumps' - hope you don't mind my correcting your English]. =
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| | Author: Rohit Mian 20 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating:  Points: 2 | Thank you, for appreciating my post Vandana. I have already gone through your ezine article. It is magnificent. Inspired by you only, I also submitted one article there 10 days back. It has passed three stages, yet two more to go. Waiting for it to be live soon.
Moreover, thank you for pointing out my mistake, and I have rectified it.
"By silence I conceal my imperfections and come to know others."
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| | Author: Gyandeep Kaushal 25 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 2 | Hi Rohit
I have been tracing your contribution in ISC. I could not find much about you, but one thing that i found was the qualitative posts that you make. Your English is really appreciable. This article is really something to read on.
Regards, Gyandeep Kaushal.
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| | Author: Dr. Apurva A. Tamhane 25 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 6 |
Hello Rohit
You have written a good essay and this has really been a exposure to the education system. The fact that Indian education system is expanding in quantity and not in Quality is also accepted by the dean of every faculty of education systems and verbally, they speak of many steps being taken by them to uplift the quality in education. Now the question is, whether are really taking the steps or they are just making air castles, is a thing to be proven which can be possible in the coming up years.
A good quality education basically does not need exotic college buildings and air conditioned classrooms, but a good teacher is the one and only basic requirement of the day. What will happen to the students, if the teacher himself/herself does not know how to speak good English?
How are they going to prosper? How will it even be possible if the education committee says that "Cheap education is a thing of the past?" Even if education loans are easily available, how much load should be put on the people to strive for education.
A pitiful condition I recently saw of a patient admitted to the hospital; He is a M.A. in English but is a Rickshaw Driver. Why? Because to become a English Teacher, He was asked for Rs. 8 Lakh Bribery by a Government School!
This was not possible for him and that is why he was compelled to do a illiterate man's job, to drive a rickshaw. The poor fellow doesn't have money to buy his own rickshaw and thus was using a rented rickshaw and striving to earn for his family and to pay the rent of the rickshaw which is Rs. 100/- per day.
You should have had heard his tone of speaking English. Literally beautiful.
Isn't this is a serious flaw in the Indian Education system, the roots of which are only and only corruption?
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Dr. Apurva A. Tamhane Consulting Homeopath and SpiderWork Websites Editor
| | Author: Rohit Mian 25 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating:  Points: 3 | Hello Apurva,
Its been long to have a conversation with you. The example cited by you truly depicts the miserable condition of the education system. When you talk of corruption, I think it has not only engulfed the education sector, but the complete nation. It cannot be minimised unless individual efforts come forward.
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| | Author: Gyandeep Kaushal 26 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 2 | Yeah, I agree with Rohit, but I think that there are many other sectors where corruption is on its peak. Education is still far behind, but slowly and steadily, even education has become a black money business, and knowledge is helpless to remain sacred.
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| | Author: Kiran Paul Kanikaram 29 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating:  Points: 3 | Hi
Its a very good article and really we in India should change the way we think and recently there have been arrests in tamilnadu and Karnataka where the college authorities have been caught on camera while accepting money to give a seat in the college. until and unless the education system is made transparent we can see any growth.
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